Contents, Introduction. (1)Survey of Public Opinion on Reading in Agricultural Districts, by Ieno-Hikari Kyokai. (2) Survey of Public Opinion on Reading All Over the Country, by Mainichi Shimbun. (3) Survey of Public Opinion on Reading in Miyazaki Prefecture, by Miyazaki Prefectural Library. (4) Survey of Actual Condition of Readers, by Books-no-Kai and the Seminar of Sociology, Tokyo University. (5) Survey of Reading Society, by Nihon Dokusho-Gakkai. (6) Survey of Attitude of Readers and Non-Readers, by Hayashi, Chikio and others. (7) Farmers and their Reading (A Survey), by No-San-Gyo-Son-Bunka-Kyokai. (8) Labor and Reading of Women in Agricultural Districts, by Ieno-Hikari Kyokai. (9) Survey of Public Opinion of Reading of Boys and Girls of Primary and Secondary Schools in their Families, by Shuppan-kagaku-Kenkyujo (1O) Survey of Magazine Readers, by Nihon-Dokusho Gakkai.